{"id":195738,"date":"2008-06-17T20:29:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T01:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/17\/mugabe-calls-on-opposition-to-stop-breaking-batons-with-their-skulls\/"},"modified":"2008-06-17T20:29:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T01:29:00","slug":"mugabe-calls-on-opposition-to-stop-breaking-batons-with-their-skulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/17\/mugabe-calls-on-opposition-to-stop-breaking-batons-with-their-skulls\/","title":{"rendered":"Mugabe Calls on Opposition to Stop Breaking Batons With Their Skulls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Also, I believe that he objects at the opposition&#8217;s attempts to stain perfectly good steel toed boots with their blood.<\/p>\n<p>I am, of course, speaking metaphorically.  He&#8217;s actually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/reuters\/2008\/06\/17\/africa\/OUKWD-UK-ZIMBABWE-ELECTION-1.php\">threatening to arrest members of the opposition because he claims that they are instigating violence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I actually find it reassuring.  We in the US don&#8217;t have the most shameless leader in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also, I believe that he objects at the opposition&#8217;s attempts to stain perfectly good steel toed boots with their blood. I am, of course, speaking metaphorically. He&#8217;s actually threatening to arrest members of the opposition because he claims that they are instigating violence. I actually find it reassuring. We in the US don&#8217;t have the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1095,971,1000],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-civil-rights","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195738"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}